Sean Lund-Brown

“It’s not you, it’s me. ”As a business owner, these seemingly tired words come up far too often—but you can’t be forced to work with clients that don’t fit your business model or whom you feel you aren’t the best fit for, can you? The answer is no, and you shouldn’t try to do it to yourself. Referral marketing is a thing. In what ways can you use referrals to get rid of those clients that you can’t (or just don’t want to) serve?

Airtable bills itself as a modern database that’s created for everyone, offering fast, flexible ways to track data and information, whether you’re trying to monitor inventory, plan the schedule, or even track down sales leads. With the combination of Zapier and Airtable, you can automate so much of your database work that you’ll see an impressive reduction in the number of tedious tasks and routine to-dos that you have to take care of on your own.

The insurance industry knows all about inconvenient timing—that’s the precise time that most accidents happen. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be your accident, thanks to modern scheduling apps and software. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the best scheduling tools and apps that can revolutionize the way your insurance agency does business, whether you’re a solo agent or part of a bigger company. We’ll look at the top scheduling tools that are out there and their features, giving you the chance to see just how many ways you can improve your time management and scheduling.

No one wants to spend time dealing with admin and data entry. Thankfully, there are ways to automate those mundane yet critical tasks. Zapier integrates with thousands of apps, many of which can help reduce your admin and data entry workload. Learn more about the 20 best options to help you boost productivity with automation.

In small businesses, things like "HR" are often just the process of you, the owner or manager, dealing with employees, payroll, and all of the related issues. Where multi-billion-dollar corporations can implement and integrate full-service HR and payroll teams, the small business is limited on resources and funds, which makes it difficult to take care of everything that needs attention. Today, there are hundreds of apps and software platforms geared toward HR and payroll, including things like recruiting, employee management, time management and payroll processing, and more. In the list below, we'll take a look at some of the best human resources apps on the market today, including their features and tools, costs, and other things you should know.

Choosing the right online scheduling app is a process that requires careful consideration. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be a difficult process when you know what to look for. To assist with that, we’ve created this guide to help you compare two of the best scheduling tools on the market today: Calendly and Acuity Scheduling. Each has its own features and pros and cons to consider, but it’s ultimately going to be up to you to figure out what’s best for your needs.

Website conversions are one of the most basic types of lead follow-through, and yet they’re the ones that most often fall through the cracks or just don’t come to fruition as they could. It starts by having a conversation—your leads come from your website, but that doesn’t mean they have to stay there. Let’s talk more about how you can use our services, and your own staff, to convert more leads and create more meaningful (and profitable) conversations.

An online scheduling app could revolutionize the way that you do business—but which one is best? Today, there are dozens, and probably hundreds even, of different alternatives for scheduling, appointment booking, and time management software. In this guide, we’ll break down two of the leading scheduling apps: Calendly and ScheduleOnce. A side-by-side comparison will help you better understand which one will be best for your scheduling needs.

The market for apps and tools that are designed to help businesses grow and thrive offers something for just about every aspect of business operation. There are tools to handle marketing, invoicing, productivity and automation, payroll and HR, and endless choices for tools that are designed to measure and enhance the customer experience. ow, though, are you supposed to generate a metric that's so intangible? What does it look like, on paper, when customers are loyal and the experience is good? That's exactly why the Net Promoter Score was created. Learn about some of the best NPS apps out there today.

Running a small business, working as a freelancer, or handling a major corporation's financial department can invoke a lot of different feelings at various times. One of the most stressful and frustrating situations that you can face is dealing with customers that don't pay their bills on time or at all. Ideally, every person you partner with on the business aspect will pay you upfront, or at the very least, on time. That's the cash flow you need to continue to operate. Without the revenue, you have trouble paying your own bills, and eventually, if you allow it to continue for too long, it could wind up costing you severely.